A List of the Chapters
Reading edition
Part I
Page
1. A Place apart 1
2. Miss Watkyns 2
3. Ways and Means 4
4. The Snergs 7
5. Sylvia 11
6. Joe 13
7. Vanderdecken and his Men 14
8. How the Adventure started 19
9. How it really began 21
10. The Turret Chamber 23
11. How Joe bore Captivity 24
12. The Forest Land 29
13. The Dawn 33
14. Gorbo the Snerg 35
15. The Town 38
16. The Royal House 40
17. The King of the Snergs 41
18. The Feast 45
19. A Morning Walk 47
20. The Twisted Trees 50
Part II
21. Trouble at Watkyns Bay 57
22. Beyond the Door 60
23. The Mushroom Cavern 63
24. The other side of the River 71
25. Golithos the Ogre 73
26. Dinner with Golithos 76
27. Golithos explains 80
28. The Upstairs Room 82
29. Gorbo’s Doubts 84
30. Golithos is tempted 86
31. Beyond the Tower 89
32. The Knight Errant 90
33. Sir Percival’s Job 95
34. The Mysterious Castle 96
35. Sir Percival’s Annoyance 99
36. The Castle Kitchen 100
37. Breakfast 101
38. A Terrible Moment 103
39. More Trouble 104
40. The Sorrows of Baldry 107
41. The Dark Woods 113
42. Mother Meldrum’s House 115
43. More Sorrow for Baldry 119
44. A Change of Tone 121
45. Dinner with a Witch 122
46. The Spare Bedroom 125
47. What happened in the Night 127
48. The Green Ride 132
49. Captives 137
Part III
50. The Doings at Home 139
51. The Ingenuity of Vanderdecken 141
52. How they passed over the River 142
53. Boot and Saddle 144
54. The First Day’s March 145
55. The Mysterious Castle again 146
56. How Gorbo gathered Mandrakes 151
57. The Cozening of Gorbo 158
58. A Fearful Bargain 162
59. Captives on the Road 165
60. King Kul I 167
61. A Change of Clothes at last 171
62. Another Meal with Royalty 173
63. A Stinger 174
64. The Morning after 177
65. The Invasion 179
66. An Historic Meeting 181
67. Necessary Explanations 182
68. Baldry’s Sentence 184
69. Royal Clemency 187
70. The Next Day 189
71. And the Day after that 190
72. Captives again 194
73. The Barren Rocks 200
74. How Gorbo found the Way 203
75. The Reform of Golithos 206
76. Mother Meldrum goes 208
77. All Troubles over 210
78. Back across the River 213
79. Back to the Town 214
80. Back to Watkyns Bay 215
81. To finish up 217